Community Liaison Report #11

(1) GENERAL
(a) Product Updates: Now Upcoming: Assist, Footnote; Into Production: Mercado, Stem
(b) Production Statuses: Please go to this thread for a summary of production status updates, and to share any updates that either you have (ideators) or find in the forums (community members). The curious and the influential want to know.
(c) Community Liaison Updates: Get digest summaries of the most important and current Quirky related news, like this one, delivered to your email inbox. Visit the new Qmunity Blog to check it out and subscribe to the email updates.
(d) Poll: Do you think that the Forum sections are imbalanced? Vote and discuss here.

(2) NEWS
(a) Time to Under Consideration slowing down: Starting Monday (12/12), it will be impossible for ideas that have been up for less than 48 hours to be placed under consideration.
(b) Ka-ching: On 12/5, Quirky paid out approximately $30k to influencers in our community!
(c) Outdated Website Content: Some of the inaccurate details in the FAQs and Learn Section is in the process of being updated.  Yes, Quirky evolves so quickly it is sometimes hard for it to keep up with itself.
(d) Teams: Quirky is hard at work researching and discussing the rules and implications around teaming up, having an individual account, etc.

(3) REMINDERS
(a) Pricing Game: Earn influence by checking in to the Upcoming Products Page weekly and answering all 4 questions (or “not my thing”) for each of the two listed products.
(b) Free Shipping: on all domestic orders over $20, until December 12th.
(c) Social Selling: Free shipping also makes it more attractive for others to buy Quirky products, so get folks to buy via your social sales link and make 10%.  This is one of the best weeks of the year to do this.

(4) COMMUNITY LIAISON PLAN
(a) Blog: Go through the blog to find and list all the relevant posts, including information about the product development process.
(b) Forum threads: Add information wikithreads on Community Ambassadors, Product Development Stages, Community Liaison, Get Satisfaction, Blog Highlights.

If you have any comments or questions not better suited for the corresponding forum thread, please email me at matt@quirkyinc.com (but please don’t use the Quirky messenger). Thanks.